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Dino Zoff
Personal information
Full name	Dino Zoff
Date of birth	February 28, 1942 (age 65)
Place of birth	Mariano del Friuli, Italy
Height	182 cm
Playing position	Manager (former goalkeeper)
Club information
Current club	-
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1961-1963 1963-1967 1967-1972 1972-1983	Udinese Mantova Napoli Juventus	4 (0) 93 (0) 143 (0) 330 (0)
National team
1968-1982	Italy	112
Teams managed
1988-1990 1990-1994, 1996-1997 1998-2000 2001 2005	Juventus Lazio Italy Lazio Fiorentina
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Dino Zoff (born February 28, 1942) is an Italian former football goalkeeper and is the oldest winner ever of the World Cup, which he earned as captain of the Italian team in the 1982 tournament in Spain, at the age of 40.

Zoff was a goalkeeper of outstanding ability and has a place in the history of the sport among the very best in this role. He holds the record for the longest playing time without allowing goals in international tournaments (1142 minutes) set between 1972 and 1974. With 112 caps he is second only to Paolo Maldini in number of appearances for the Azzurri.

After retiring as a footballer he went on to become coach for several Italian clubs and the Nazionale.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Coaching career 3 Career overview 3.1 Clubs 3.2 Club honors 3.3 International appearances 3.4 International honors 3.5 Teams coached 3.6 Coaching honors 3.7 Other honors 4 External links

Dino Zoff was born in Mariano del Friuli, Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Italy).

Zoff's career got off to an inauspicious start, when at the age of fourteen he had trials with Inter Milan and Juventus F.C., but was rejected due to a lack of height. Five years later, having grown by 33 centimetres, he made his Serie A debut with Udinese, though Zoff made only four appearances for Udinese before moving to Mantova in 1963.

In 1968, Zoff was transferred to Napoli. In the same year he made his debut for Italy, playing against Bulgaria in the quarter final of the 1968 European Championships. Italy proceeded to win the tournament, Zoff taking home a winners' medal after only his fourth international appearance.

Left out of the Italian starting eleven in the 1970 FIFA World Cup, Zoff resumed his success after signing for Juventus in 1972. In eleven years with Juventus, Zoff won the Serie A championship six times, the Coppa Italia twice and the UEFA Cup once. However, Zoff's greatest feat came in the 1982 FIFA World Cup, where he captained Italy to victory in the tournament at the age of 40, making him the oldest ever winner of the World Cup. He followed in the footsteps of compatriot Giampiero Combi (1934) as only the second goalkeeper to captain a World Cup-winning side. He was also voted as the Best Goalkeeper of the Tournament.

Zoff holds the record for the longest stretch (1142 minutes) without allowing any goals in international football, set between 1972 and 1974. That clean sheet strech was ended by Haitian soccer player Manno Sanon's beautiful goal during the 1974 World Cup. He also held the records for the oldest Serie A player and most Serie A appearances (570 matches) for more than 20 years, until the season 2005/2006 when the record were broken by S.S. Lazio goalkeeper Marco Ballotta and A.C. Milan defender Paolo Maldini respectively.

After his retirement as a player, Zoff went into coaching, joining the technical staff at Juventus, where he was head coach from 1988 to 1990. In 1990 he was sacked, despite winning the UEFA Cup. He then joined Lazio, where he became president in 1994.

In 1998 Zoff was appointed coach of the Italian national team. Using a more open and attacking style than usually used by Italian sides, he coached Italy to a second-place finish in Euro 2000, suffering a cruel extra-time defeat at the hands of France in the final, when in the 90th minute of the game, Italy were 1-0 up and less than sixty seconds from winning the tournament before France scored to equalise and go to extra time. A few days later Zoff resigned, following strong criticism from A.C. Milan president and politician Silvio Berlusconi.

Zoff returned to Lazio, but resigned following a poor start to the 2001/02 season. In 2005, he was named the coach of Fiorentina. But after saving the team from relegation on the last day of the season, Zoff was let go.

• 1961 - 1963 Udinese
• 1963 - 1967 Mantova
• 1967 - 1972 SSC Napoli
• 1972 - 1983 Juventus F.C.

• 1973 Serie A
• 1975 Serie A
• 1977 Serie A
• 1977 UEFA Cup
• 1978 Serie A
• 1979 Italian Cup
• 1981 Serie A
• 1982 Serie A
• 1983 Italian Cup

• 1968 to 1982 for Italy (112 appearances in all, 59 as captain)
• 2 World Cup Finals

• 1968 European Championship
• 1982 FIFA World Cup

• 1988 - 1990 Juventus F.C.
• 1990 - 1994 Lazio
• 1997 Lazio
• 1998 - 2000 Italy
• 2001 Lazio
• 2005 Fiorentina

• 1990 Italian Cup
• 1990 UEFA Cup

• November 2003: Italy's Golden Player - the best Italian player of the last 50 years, selected by the Italian Football Federation [1].

• UEFA.com - Italy's Golden Player
• Dino Zoff the Legend - a lot of useful information

Preceded by Daniel Passarella (Argentina)	FIFA World Cup winning captain 1982	Succeeded by Diego Maradona (Argentina)
Preceded by Cesare Maldini	Italy managers 1998 - 2000	Succeeded by Giovanni Trapattoni

Preceded by Ottavio Bianchi	UEFA Cup Winning Coach 1989-1990	Succeeded by Giovanni Trapattoni
Preceded by -	UEFA Jubilee Awards Italy	Succeeded by -

	Italy squad - 1970 FIFA World Cup Runners-up
1 Albertosi | 2 Burgnich | 3 Facchetti | 4 Poletti | 5 Cera | 6 Ferrante | 7 Niccolai | 8 Rosato | 9 Puia | 10 Bertini | 11 Riva | 12 Zoff | 13 Domenghini | 14 Rivera | 15 Mazzola | 16 De Sisti | 17 Vieri | 18 Juliano | 19 Gori | 20 Boninsegna | 21 Furino | 22 Prati | Coach: Valcareggi

	Italy squad - 1974 FIFA World Cup
1 Zoff | 2 Spinosi | 3 Facchetti | 4 Benetti | 5 Morini | 6 Burgnich | 7 Mazzola | 8 Capello | 9 Chinaglia | 10 Rivera | 11 Riva | 12 Albertosi | 13 Sabadini | 14 Bellugi | 15 Wilson | 16 Juliano | 17 Re Cecconi | 18 Causio | 19 Anastasi | 20 Boninsegna | 21 Pulici | 22 Castellini | Coach: Valcareggi

	Italy squad - 1978 FIFA World Cup Fourth Place
1 Zoff | 2 Bellugi | 3 Cabrini | 4 Cuccureddu | 5 Gentile | 6 Maldera | 7 Manfredonia | 8 Scirea | 9 Antognoni | 10 Benetti | 11 Pecci | 12 Conti | 13 P. Sala | 14 Tardelli | 15 Zaccarelli | 16 Causio | 17 C. Sala | 18 Bettega | 19 Graziani | 20 Pulici | 21 Rossi | 22 Bordon | Coach: Bearzot

	Italy squad - 1982 FIFA World Cup Champions (3rd Title)
1 Zoff | 2 Baresi | 3 Bergomi | 4 Cabrini | 5 Collovati | 6 Gentile | 7 Scirea | 8 Vierchowod | 9 Antognoni | 10 Dossena | 11 Marini | 12 Bordon | 13 Oriali | 14 Tardelli | 15 Causio | 16 Conti | 17 Massaro | 18 Altobelli | 19 Graziani | 20 Rossi | 21 Selvaggi | 22 Galli | Coach: Bearzot

Persondata
NAME	Zoff, Dino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zoff, Dino
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	28 February 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mariano del Friuli, Italy
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH